The book reveals that European product market integration has a significant impact on the conditions of competition, the strategies of companies and the structure of industry. It adds a quarter of a percentage to annual GDP growth rates and has not led to an increased exposure of the EU to...

This book contributes fresh theoretical and empirical evidence on competitiveness and growth in connection with the commitment made by European leaders at the Lisbon Summit in 2000 to ‘render the European Union the most competitive and dynamic knowledge based economy in the world by 2010,...

This book examines the background to a change in the legal framework which occurred in May 2004 with the entry into force of a new Merger Regulation that for the first time explicitly recognises the possibility of an efficiency defence. European Merger Control assesses the likely impact of this...

Cette étude a pour but d'examiner la position compétitive des industries belges dans les secteurs les plus concernés par l'achèvement du marché intérieur. Trois principales conclusions émergent de cette analyse. Tout d'abord, les enjeux du marché intérieur sont particulièrement...

[eng] The aim of this paper is to identify at a community level those sectors of industry which will be most affected by the White Paper measures. The assumption made is that the more sensitive sectors are those which are at the present time protected most by non-tariff barriers and those where...